Consistently described as ‘excellent’ by clients, the team at DLA Piper advises a wide array of clients - from insurance companies to car manufacturers - on all manner of contentious and non-contentious matters. The team is led by London-based trio Mark O’Conor, Nicholas Fitzpatrick, and Mike Conradi. O’Conor also chairs the firm’s AI group, and regularly advises clients on cloud and digital transformation, and public procurement and outsourcing, while Fitzpatrick has a flair for sports, media and entertainment with regards to negotiating and structuring complex arrangements. Conradi co-chairs the firm’s international telecoms practice, providing regulatory and commercial support to sovereign states, regulators and businesses. Other key figures include Kit Burden, who advises on outsourcing and other technology transactions for both users and suppliers of IT.
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Testimonials
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‘The DLA Piper team has been an excellent partner to us on complex and challenging data protection matters. In addition to fantastic subject matter expertise, I've been impressed with how the team collaborates with us. They dig deep to understand our broader goals, responsive to our queries, and take strong ownership on deliverables. When working with DLA Piper, I have strong confidence that they will help us arrive at the best possible results.’
'Nick Fitzpatrick - very knowledgeable, gives very valuable advice and understands commercial requirements involved in legal negotiations. When they don't have the immediate expertise on a specific subject they would reach out to their colleagues and would always come back to us in a very short time.’
‘Knowledgeable, commercially aware, transparent and quick responses.’
‘Kit Burden is a recognised industry leader, he provides excellent customer service, has a deep understanding of the market and industry, and delivers good value for money.’
‘By far, Kit Burden and his team are the market leaders.'
Key clients
- Aviva
- Discovery Communications LLC
- Dentsu Group Inc.
- Thomson Reuters
- THG
- UK Government’s Department for Culture
- LEGO
- ITV
- The Football Association Premier League
- British Airways
Work highlights
- Acting as the legal adviser to the UK Ministry of Defence in relation to the Armed Forces Recruiting Programme on all aspects of its £1.8bn project to combine recruitment across all three Armed Services.
- Acting for WarnerBros Discovery and Liberty Global on the sale of their jointly-owned production house, All3Media.
- Representing Ooredoo Group in entering into definitive agreements with Mobile Telecommunications Company K.S.P.C and TASC Towers Holding to create the an independent tower company valued at USD 2.2bn.
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Practice head
Mark O’Conor; Nicholas Fitzpatrick; Mike Conradi
Other key lawyers
Kit Burden